I swear, one of these times, you're gonna wake up in a coma.

Cordelia ,'Showtime'


Natter 37: Oddly Enough, We've Had This Conversation Before.  

Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.


Jesse - Aug 01, 2005 11:55:45 am PDT #4701 of 10002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.

MINDFREAK!!!!!

LOVE IT!!!

I don't know why everything about him makes me laugh so hard.


-t - Aug 01, 2005 11:59:24 am PDT #4702 of 10002
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration

I couple of weeks ago, when I pulled out of my parking spot at Whole foods to leave, someone came and waited to claim it. By sitting directly in front of me so I couldn't actually leave. And this was a two way lane that actually had room for two cars to pass one another, he had just swerved over in my lane to be able to make the turn into my recently vacated spot and would not budge. I kinda wish I had pulled back into my spot and foiled him rather than politely backing up so he could have it. Nimrod.


§ ita § - Aug 01, 2005 12:05:03 pm PDT #4703 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Deconstruction of the next Doctor's wardrobe.


Ginger - Aug 01, 2005 12:07:44 pm PDT #4704 of 10002
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda

No, it's all adults who can't see the goth wearing a top hat and petticoats.

I'm comforted that Jilli is also invisible to people with carts. I'm not really a small person and I've had to leap out of the way of people barreling down the aisle. Usually it's in grocery stores, but last week I went to our month-old Ikea, and I was run into several times by people by people staring at the brave new retail world.


Kat - Aug 01, 2005 12:17:37 pm PDT #4705 of 10002
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo

I agree that the bill hammock is not about germ avoidance. I'd imagine it's a response to registers that tell you what change is due. Previously, a person would usually count out the change first to the nearest dollar, then get the bills out.

Now that the read out tells you dollar amount first, then change, I wonder if cashiers grab the bills first then change.

Also, random, in New Zealand, the grocery stores use Swedish Rounding to give change because there are no equivalent coins for pennies there. It was the first time i'd ever heard of Swedish rounding.


Nutty - Aug 01, 2005 12:21:13 pm PDT #4706 of 10002
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."

Hello, all. I have been such a good worker bee that I have hardly been here all day. (NOTE TO COMPANY EYEBALLS: See my virtue?)

I did break for a Hawaiian burger at 1, however.

Now going home to decide where the bookcases go. Also, to figure out how best to use furniture-coasters, about which the only shouting of Move Day was the topic. (Of course.)

Poor dumb Rafi Palmeiro. Maybe it was a drive-by blow-gun steroid injection. Maybe somebody was trying to kill him by feeding him large amounts of ephedra. Maybe he needs to invest in a Whizzinator.


Typo Boy - Aug 01, 2005 12:33:41 pm PDT #4707 of 10002
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.

Widely spread on various blogs

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Liese S. - Aug 01, 2005 12:48:28 pm PDT #4708 of 10002
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."

Hey, is Gud around? I'm on my way back west starting tomorrow (with a stop by the waterpark) so could be through KC Friday evening or Saturday noonish. If it's convenient, I wouldn't mind saying hello to KC-istas.


bon bon - Aug 01, 2005 12:56:48 pm PDT #4709 of 10002
It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.

I don't know why everything about him makes me laugh so hard.

I don't know why your interest in him makes me laugh so hard.


Kalshane - Aug 01, 2005 1:10:30 pm PDT #4710 of 10002
GS: If you had to choose between kicking evil in the head or the behind, which would you choose, and why? Minsc: I'm not sure I understand the question. I have two feet, do I not? You do not take a small plate when the feast of evil welcomes seconds.

Does anyone prefer to get their change back in a bill-hammock? You know when the person at the register piles the change onto the bills and holds the bill by the two short edges?

Drives me absolutely nuts. Drive thru people are notorious for it and I've lost count of the times I've ended up with my change scattered over my lap and the floor of the car or worse on the ground outside my car.

I also hate people who stand by the card slider/cart area and rearrange their pocketbook completely, tidying their hair and itemizing tax deductions after they are rung out, preventing me from moving my cart forward and filling it and/or sliding my card.

This drive me nuts. And I tend to get paranoid about taking too long myself so I try to get everything secure, then organize it once I'm out of the aisle.

People tend not to run into me with their carts, but I often encounter pairs of people who have their carts parked side by side, blocking the aisle while they're looking at the shelves. How hard is it to move your cart past the person already stopped, and then walk back to whatever it is you want to browse over?

This is why I was so disappointed when the local grocery store stopped being 24 hours. I loved going shopping at 2 am when the only thing I had to watch out for was stockers.